The Triumph of Lester Snapwell

Year: 1963

Runtime: 22 mins

Language: English

Director: James Calhoun

Comedy

A low‑budget industrial short produced for Eastman Kodak, starring Buster Keaton as Lester Snapwell. Set in the late 1860s, Snapwell wrestles with a cumbersome early camera while trying to photograph his beloved Clementine and her mother. After a fatal accident, Father Time thrusts him forward through successive eras, each bringing newer photographic equipment that confounds him. By the 1960s he finally discovers the Kodak Instamatic, ending his struggles.

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